Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

- Knight, Philip

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene